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The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan (Paperback, 2015)
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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies. In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls his greatest achievement, Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-139781137278838
eBay Product ID (ePID)176670163
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameThe Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaEconomic Sociology
AuthorTim Pat Coogan
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Weight351 g
Item Width153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorTim Pat Coogan
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- 10 Feb, 2021
describes the content accurately
Amazing should be part of the history syllabus in primary and secondary schools in England and Ireland also very readable with day to day accounts of daily life during the great famine years . I thank him for writing this book and for the great amount of research that has been put into it. People need to be more informed on this period in history and this book certainly does it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 10 Feb, 2017
The Famine Plot
Good read. Well reasearched, plenty of facts. Some of the conclusions he draws are a bit over the top but he has basically got it right. Highly informative.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 04 Sep, 2019
Very apt, but to be more accurate it was a genocide.
The famine plot. A riveting read, broke my heart. Very informative and detailed account of a terrible time in Ireland whilst under British rule.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Apr, 2019
Great book by a great writer
It tell the story of the famine in irelandVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 13 May, 2022
The Famine Plot
Great read, fascinatingVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
